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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Wee Nee volunteers of Williamsburg District, South Carolina, in the First (Hagood's) regiment. (search)
berg countermanded. On Wednesday, the 28th of April, 1862, I again left home with the Wee Nee Volunteers and reported for duty in Charleston. The company was sent into quarters at Chisholm's Mill, where it remained for a day or two, and then went to Secessionville to join the battalion. I proceeded at once to Columbia for the purpose of presenting to the Governor and Council the rolls of seven companies, and to ask that they be organized into a battalion. I reached that city on the 29th of April and had an interview with Colonel James Chesnut, who was acting as Chief of the Military Department of the State Government. The Council readily granted the request of the companies which I represented, and orders were issued to organize them into a battalion of the Twenty-fifth South Carolina volunteers, to be known as the Eutaw battalion. Commissions were issued by General Wilmot G. DeSaussure, then acting as Adjutant-General of the State, to Charles H. Simonton, as Lieutenant-Colone